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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 37m

Facebook is a hot mess of garbage that I only still have for very stupid reasons, but every so often it serves up something beautiful. I will probably never be anywhere near this coffee shop, but if I were, I would throw money at them

A facebook post from Caffe Lucca - which appears to be in Halifax - that reads "We don't use AI for anything, but we don't want to be left behind with so many restaurants churning out slick flyers. Here's our best made-by-humans approximation." The image shows a white person with short hair holding three paper coffee cups in about four hands. The fingers are all weird and the images have been pasted together badly. Down the left side of the image, a series of paper coffee cup sleeves have been written on. They say "coffee!" and "hurry!" and "cud" among other somewhat random and repetitive words.

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 31m

if you are judging what SA survivors are posting during a time like this when rape is in the news 24/7 (and now something being actively discussed on here in games-adjacent bsky), you can honestly just unfollow me. let us be upset, or be angry, or post what is helping us get through the fucking day.

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Scott @smadin.net · 42m

this guy's account appears to be all of two weeks old and basically all he does is aggressively defend yud's bonkers cult. he's just trying to waste everyone's time.

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Scott @smadin.net · 53m

Oh, this is gonna be fun

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Formerly Saysceej @ceejopolis.bsky.social · 1h

I am a fan of saying “I don’t need to make this argument anymore than I need to make an argument that the world is round. Other people have already made the argument. The fact that you are too captured to accept the counter arguments isn’t a thing I’m inclined to worry about”

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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 1h

the important thing to remember is that yud is not a programmer, was entirely wrong about the potential of LLMs, and is literally talking out of his ass

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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 1h

Just because you/I don't understand AI doesn't mean that no one does. So many people buy into this 'poorly understood' line that lets commercially-motivated tech companies off the hook for harms & near-catastrophes. Kudos to @emilymbender.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.blacksky.app for this.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 1h

I'm against the death penalty. Like, without exception against. When our ideas about justice were simplistic, it was necessary, I suppose. But we, as humans, civilised, should know better by now.

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Scott @smadin.net · 1h

this is true even when the purveyors of those ideas have hoodwinked many rich and powerful people into believing them (or at least pretending to believe them, for profit).

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Scott @smadin.net · 1h

also some ideas are just so self-evidently absurd that they do not actually deserve any rebuttal other than ridicule.

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Scott @smadin.net · 2h

I'm sorry, no, I refuse to learn about yet another of these odious rape-loving rat boys

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 3h

if you aren't already supporting @mothership.blog, you should be. support women and queer people in video game criticism and journalism. we deserve to exist in these spaces but, at least in the case of mothership, we can only exist and pay our writers and introduce you to new writers if YOU help us.

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Scott @smadin.net · 4h

I know we don't do Hallowe'eny display names and user pics anymore but I do kind of miss that tradition

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Loll Yudkowsky, Soares and such AREN'T SHILLS? The Yudkowsky who founded the eugenicist, rationalist cult? The one who predected singularity to be 2025? The one in the sex parties that women have to attend to "network? The rape orgies with dubious consent mechanisms that Soares coorganizes?

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Abby Someone @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 12h

We can’t. We know we can’t. It’s why it always has been and always will be a violation of the 8th amendment.

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Scott @smadin.net · 12h

happy First of Hallowe'en (east coast time), everyone

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 13h

we have something really potentially great and unique in history here that is getting destroyed by one of the oldest fuckeries in human history, we have thousands of years of writings on defeating authoritarians, come ON people, don't be so quick to give up on this

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 13h

My wife refers to this show simply as “Grunty Hunky Takes London” and never misses an episode.

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Scott @smadin.net · 13h

but see there's the 5K to benefit the homeless shelter in the morning, and then there's my city's oktoberfest thing with live music and martial arts demos and a beer garden, and then one of my local brewpubs has _their_ oktoberfest thing, and then there's day 2 of Fuzzstival

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Scott @smadin.net · 13h

well, it's my own fault

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Scott @smadin.net · 13h

how did I end up with things on Saturday from 6:30am straight through to 11pm

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 13h

Gosh, why wouldn't people want to visit the country that's disappearing and trafficking human beings every day

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Scott @smadin.net · 13h

also (and again, only halfway through, so I don't know yet if they mention this later in the episode!) I will never stop loving the Rickman/Allen "oh my god, I think he just experienced acting" anecdote. it's right up there with Jones/Carrey "I cannot sanction your buffoonery".

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Scott @smadin.net · 13h

halfway through the @pleaserspunishers.bsky.social ep on Galaxy Quest, and as much as I love when movie podcasts cover movies I'm not familiar with, I also _really_ love hearing smart people talk about how they also love a movie I already love.

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Scott @smadin.net · 14h

the good thing about the creepy little CGI baby yeti mascot facebook is using for its latest "let us into all your private data" venture is that zoomers and alphas are well-trained by Steam's glut of streamer-bait jumpscare horror fare to assume any overly cutesy character is actually a demon

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North Shore Progressives @nsprogressives.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A good way to remember how to vote on this year’s ballot questions: 3 + 5 =8 Vote NO on questions 3, 5, & 8 Vote YES on all other questions. I am fully in agreement with @progressivemass.bsky.social & am very disappointed that @lwvma.bsky.social is agnostic on Questions 3 & 8.

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Indivisible Maynard Area @indivisiblemaynard.bsky.social · 20h

Quick summary of MA ballot questions and positions of LWV and @progressivemass.bsky.social

Shows stances on the 9 ballot questions.
LWV:
Yes on 1, 4, 7, and 9.
No on 5 and 8

Progressive Mass:
Yes on 1, 2, 4, 7, and 9
No on 3, 5, 9

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BlackJew 🏳️‍⚧️ @blackjew.bsky.social · 14h

I got to hang out with some of my favorite people and make a video about No on Question 3, No to Jungle Primaries, no to the California system in #mapoli

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 14h

Surely this could be useful for someone.

Odd Ladies Meet Tonight
--The Daily Item, 29 Mar 1961

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14h

when I tell you this made me so proud to have once been a nurse.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15h

righteous among the nations

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 14h

SEN. SCHMITT: You deny seeing Bon Jovi at State Farm Arena that night in Atlanta? You just perjured yourself. JACK SMITH: I don’t even like- SEN. KLOBUCHAR: There was a Bon Iver thing that night in Eau Claire. SMITH: That’s right, Amy. I saw you there. KLOBUCHAR: Living room deal. It was nice.

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 14h

i don't think the state has any business torturing anyone to death

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14h

The conservative justices of the Supreme Court are torturing a human being to death.

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Scott @smadin.net · 14h

to kill a person who is unable to defend themselves is murder, when the state does it just as surely as when an individual does

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 14h

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Scott @smadin.net · 14h

I also liked that Steel Battalion did that.

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Scott @smadin.net · 14h

something something sankey chart coming (in Aella|in a fluffer|soon) something something

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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 15h

tomorrow is october first if you even care

a screengrab of a local fox40 HD newscast showing a cloaked skeleton with its arms out in a welcoming embrace. the chyron in the lower third of the screen is blue and reads: YIKES! Stay Tuned

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Scott @smadin.net · 15h

I haven't seen that movie, but…"musical or comedy" does not seem correct based on what I've read

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 16/01/2026

allowing people to bet on what they think the news will be and allowing the news to report on what people are betting they think the news will be is bad.

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Scott @smadin.net · 15h

I hate these people so much. I don't want to hate people, I don't feel good about that! but my god, they suck so much.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 15h

thinking of women as fully human was too hard for these lazy pieces of shit so they had to create plagiarism machines instead

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Scott @smadin.net · 15h

we played this, not when it was entirely new, but still during the gamecube era, so basically a million years ago, and even knowing and having read about the ways the sanity mechanic would mess with us, _it still worked_.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 19h

for real though the "model welfare" people who are worried about the ethical treatment of nonsentient computer programs are absolutely deranged, very well-funded, and extremely dangerous; is also the core ideology of Anthropic

One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of effective altruists and people who believe LLMs are sentient to beg GitHub to delete the project on the grounds that the AI is suffering and that this glorified text adventure game is somehow cruel. The saga is an outgrowth of several recent viral papers and blog posts that have sparked a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare,” which is essentially worrying about the “mental health” of AI bots and agents.

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Scott @smadin.net · 15h

oh my god that's so much sauce

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